Travis Elborough

I was interviewed by the very charming Josh Loeb at the Hackney Citizen. 

You can read it online here: 

‘Odd’ diarists featured in Travis Elborough’s book A London Year

I was interviewed by Kinfolk magazine for this article on film photography. 

http://www.kinfolk.com/analog-photography-part-i/

As part of the Barbican’s Urban Wanderings season, I will be involved in a panel discussion about the great architectural critic Ian Nairn. This will follow screenings of his rare documentary on Pimlico (The Pacemakers, 1973) and episodes of the BBC series Nairn’s Travels (1970).

Full details about the event are here:

http://www.barbican.org.uk/film/event-detail.asp?ID=15200

Short samplers of A London Year will be distributed at Liverpool St, Waterloo and King’s Cross stations on 19th and 26th September. As well as containing some choice extracts from the anthology itself, there’s also a £7 off voucher if you pre-order the book from Waterstones.com

How We Used to Live

‘Documentarian Paul Kelly returns to the festival with his latest collaboration with the band Saint Etienne, following the loose trilogy of London films Finisterre, What Have You Done Today, Mervyn Day and This Is Tomorrow, all recently published on BFI DVD. In the decade since Finisterre Kelly has built a reputation as a distinctive voice in British cinema, developing a lyrical style that draws on the psychogeography and people of the city and its culture. How We Used To Live is effectively a prequel to Finisterre, a meditation on London life today and a glance back at a receding Britain. Using colour footage from the 1950s to the 1980s, taken from the BFI National Archive, the film covers the ‘New Elizabethan’ age from the optimism of the post-war era to the dawn of Thatcherism. Soundtracked by Saint Etienne’s Pete Wiggs and scripted by the band’s Bob Stanley with Travis Elborough, the film is for anyone who has ever tried to understand their city. Alluringly impressionistic, poetic and political, this is the most joyful and entertaining offering yet from a unique filmmaking collective.’

Full details here:

http://goo.gl/OF5mPF

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